Exhibit 1075 · Fact-check
Archived fact-check: Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab
When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed.
Rated a claim by Li-Meng Yan that SARS-CoV-2 'is a man-made virus created in the lab'. On 17 May 2021 PolitiFact removed it from its database 'pending a more thorough review' and said it now considered the claim 'unsupported by evidence and in dispute,' preserving the original text.
- Source
- PolitiFact (Poynter Institute)
- Date
- 16 September 2020; editor's note 17 May 2021
- Quoted from
- Editor's note, May 17, 2021 (top of archived page)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/16/li-meng-yan/tucker-carlson-guest-airs-debunked-conspiracy-theo/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Read in the Wayback copy; politifact.com blocks scripted fetches. 'Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute.' is the same note.